Joshua 8:15
Then Joshua and all Israel, acting as if they were overcome before them, went in flight by way of the waste land.
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Joshua 8:15
Then Joshua and all Israel, acting as if they were overcome before them, went in flight by way of the waste land.
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Genesis 19:2
And he said, My masters, come now into your servant's house and take your rest there for the night, and let your feet be washed; and early in the morning you may go on your way. And they said, Not so, but we will take our night's rest in the street.
1 Kings 3:24
Then he said, Get me a sword. So they went and put a sword before the king.
Luke 24:28
And they came near the town to which they were going, and he seemed as if he was going on;
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Joshua 8:2
And you are to do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king: but their goods and their cattle you may take for yourselves: let a secret force be stationed to make a surprise attack on the town from the back.
Joshua 8:9
So Joshua sent them out: and they took up a secret position between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua kept with the people that night.
Joshua 8:17
There was not a man in Ai and Beth-el who did not go out after Israel; and the town was open and unwatched while they went after Israel.
Joshua 8:18
And the Lord said to Joshua, Let your spear be stretched out against Ai; for I will give it into your hands. So Joshua took up his spear, stretching it out in the direction of the town.
Joshua 8:22
Then the other force came out of the town against them, so that they were being attacked on this side and on that: and Israel overcame them and let not one of them get away with his life.
Joshua 8:23
But the king of Ai they made prisoner, and took him to Joshua.
Joshua 8:25
On that day twelve thousand were put to death, men and women, all the people of Ai.
Joshua 8:26
For Joshua did not take back his hand with the outstretched spear till the destruction of the people of Ai was complete.
Joshua 8:27
But the cattle and the goods from that town, Israel took for themselves, as the Lord had given orders to Joshua.
Joshua 8:28
So Joshua gave Ai to the flames, and made it a waste mass of stones for ever, as it is to this day.
Joshua 8:29
And he put the king of Ai to death, hanging him on a tree till evening: and when the sun went down, Joshua gave them orders to take his body down from the tree, and put it in the public place of the town, covering it with a great mass of stones, which is there to this day.
Joshua 12:16
The king of Makkedah, one; the king of Beth-el, one;
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Joshua 8:5
And I and all the people with me will come near the town, and when they come out against us as they did before, we will go in flight from them;
Joshua 8:6
And they will come out after us, till we have got them away from the town; for they will say, They have gone in flight from us as before; so we will go in flight before them;
Judges 20:31
And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, moving away from the town; and as before, at their first attack, they put to death about thirty men of Israel on the highways, of which one goes up to Beth-el and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country.
Judges 20:32
And the children of Benjamin said, They are giving way before us as at first. But the children of Israel said, Let us go in flight and get them away from the town, into the highways.
Judges 20:33
So all the men of Israel got up and put themselves in fighting order at Baal-tamar: and those who had been waiting secretly to make a surprise attack came rushing out of their place on the west of Geba.
Judges 20:34
And they came in front of Gibeah, ten thousand of the best men in all Israel, and the fighting became more violent; but the children of Benjamin were not conscious that evil was coming on them.
Judges 20:35
Then the Lord sent sudden fear on Benjamin before Israel; and that day the children of Israel put to death twenty-five thousand, one hundred men of Benjamin, all of them swordsmen.
Judges 20:37
And the watchers, rushing on Gibeah and overrunning it, put all the town to the sword without mercy.
Judges 20:42
So turning their backs on the men of Israel, they went in the direction of the waste land; but the fight overtook them; and those who came out of the town were heading them off and putting them to the sword.
Jeremiah 51:12
Let the flag be lifted up against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, put the watchmen in their places, make ready a surprise attack: for it is the Lord's purpose, and he has done what he said about the people of Babylon.
Ephesians 6:11
Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One.
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2 Samuel 2:24
But Joab and Abishai went after Abner: and the sun went down when they came to the hill of Ammah, which is to the east of the road through the waste land of Geba.
2 Samuel 15:23
And there was great weeping in all the country when all the people went through; and the king himself was waiting in the Kidron valley and all the people went by him in the direction of the olive-tree on the edge of the waste land.
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2 Kings 2:19
Now the men of the town said to Elisha, You see that the position of this town is good; but the water is bad, causing the young of the cattle to come to birth dead.
2 Kings 2:20
So he said, Get me a new vessel, and put salt in it; and they took it to him.
2 Kings 2:21
Then he went out to the spring from which the water came, and put salt in it, and said, The Lord says, Now I have made this water sweet; no longer will it be death-giving or unfertile.
2 Kings 2:24
And turning back, he saw them, and put a curse on them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the wood and put forty-two of the children to death.
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